A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11114, 2 December 1914, Page 5

A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.

ENTRAPPED GERMANS FIGHT LIKE MADMAN Russians fight magnificently A PERILOUS RETREAT. London, Dec. 1. The Daily Mail’s Petrograd correspondent reports that under the inspiration of a misleading order from the Kaiser promising toat the war would be ended if Warsaw were taken, the entrapped Germans hurled themselves against the encircling wall with the desperation of maddened wild animaK The carnage was awful. The Germans were obliged to climb heaps of (heir dead comrades to reach the Russian bayonets. The Russians fought magnificently, but were in insuffici ent numbers, and the Germans avoided a Sedan, but their retreat is perilous owing to the absence of roads. The Russians from Lodz and Morga River still thr aten the flanks, and the Gossaoks presiateatly Harry the retreat.